Converting PES and eFootball heads to FIFA 07/FIFA 10 format

[Dmitri]

In this tutorial I'll explain how to convert PES 2021 head models to FIFA 07 and FIFA 10. Since model format in FIFA 07 is same with FIFA 08 format, this tutorial will also work for FIFA 08.
For converting any 3D model to FIFA 07 format, check this tutorial: http://www.soccergaming.com/index.p...fifa-07-format-completely-manual-way.6468038/

Requirements:
Blender (latest version is recommended) - https://www.blender.org/download/
otools latest version (0.177 or higher) - https://bitbucket.org/fifam/otools/downloads/
PES to FIFA/FIFAM converter v.1.1 - https://www.dropbox.com/s/6if51iob6swacjp/PES_to_FIFA_FIFAM_v_1_1.zip?dl=1
Asset Loader - for installing models and textures into the game - FIFA 07 | FIFA 08 | FIFA 10

Limitations:
In this tutorial we create an HD model and textures (the polycount is much higher than original game models, and textures are in better quality). It's not possible to use such models and textures in original game. We use Asset Loader to load them, because it gives an ability to load HD models and textures.

Prepare your workspace
Install Blender if it's not installed yet. After Blender is installed, open it. You will see the default scene with cube, camera and light:

Press "A", this will select all objects in the scene:

Now press "Delete", this will delete selected objects. The scene will be empty then:

Now go to File>Defaults>Save Startup File, Save Startup File

Install Blender add-on ("PES_Face_Hair_Modifier_Modified_Blender_2.80.zip") from "PES_to_FIFA_FIFAM/Blender scripts":
In Blender, go to Edit>Preferences..., Add-ons, Install..., select the .zip file. Enable the add-on after it's installed.

If Add-On was correctly installed, you will see it in the Scene Properties tab:

Note that add-on works only with Blender 2.80+

Unpack PES to FIFA/FIFAM converter somewhere.
Open "PES_to_FIFA_FIFAM/Blender scripts/PesFacesToFbx Batch (Blender 3.2).py" in Notepad and change the path here with path to your "Pes_In" folder (note: use forward slashes in the path):

Unpack OTools folder somewhere.
Open "PES_to_FIFA_FIFAM/Bat_FIFA_07.bat" (For FIFA 10: "PES_to_FIFA_FIFAM/Bat_FIFA_10.bat") in Notepad and change the path here with path to your OTools folder (it's a folder where otools.exe is placed):
Update: OTools 0.177 is now required

Install Asset Loader for your FIFA 07, FIFA 08 or FIFA 10.

 

[Dmitri]

Conversion process

Step 1. Put player folders which you want to convert to "PES_to_FIFA_FIFAM/Pes_In" folder.
The structure of folders will look like this:

Names of folders are not important, I use PES ID - Name for better navigation.

In each folder you need to create a file "fifaid.txt" with player's FIFA id inside it.

If player is not present in FIFA database, you will also need to create:
- "skin.txt" file with skin tone ID (1 to 10), you can check skin tone IDs in "PES_to_FIFA_FIFAM/data/fifa07" (for FIFA 10 - "PES_to_FIFA_FIFAM/data/fifa10") folder (files 1.tga - 10.tga)
- "name.txt" file with player name
- "eyes.png" file for player eyes, can be taken from "PES_to_FIFA_FIFAM/data/fifa07/eyes" and renamed.
Example of folder for player who's not in FIFA database (300001 is a fake ID):


Step 2. Export .fpk to .fbx in Blender.
You can do this:
2.1 With Blender batch script
In Blender, open Scripting tab, Text>Open...

select "PES_to_FIFA_FIFAM/Blender scripts/PesFacesToFbx Batch (Blender 3.2).py"

Run script:

Blender will freeze for some seconds (depends on how many faces must be exported), you will understand that script is finished after Blender will unfreeze.
When script is finished, you will see .fbx files in player folders:

Note that script works only with Blender 3.2+

 

[Dmitri]

2.2 Manually exporting each face
If your Blender version is lower than 3.2 and you can't use the batch script, you need to export each face manually. For each face, you need to do the following:
First, press "Start New Scene" button.
Second, press "Extract Face.Fpk" button.

Select .fpk file (it's placed in #Win subfolder of player's folder), check all checkboxes on the right and press Extract button.

You will see the face in 3D-View:

Now, in 3D-View, press "A", this will select all objects in the scene.

Now press "Ctrl+A" and select "All Transforms" in the list:

Now go to File>Export>FBX (.fbx)

Export it as "face.fbx" to player's folder:

The file is exported.

 

[Dmitri]

Step 3. Launch the converter
For FIFA 07/FIFA 08 - "PES_to_FIFA_FIFAM/Bat_FIFA_07.bat"
For FIFA 10 - "PES_to_FIFA_FIFAM/Bat_FIFA_10.bat"


Step 4. Install files into the game
Copy all .O and .FSH (for FIFA 10 - also .DDS) files from all subfolders in "PES_to_FIFA_FIFAM/Pes_Out/fifa07" (for FIFA 10 - "PES_to_FIFA_FIFAM/Pes_Out/fifa10") to "data/assets" folder in your game.
FIFA 07:

FIFA 10:

 

[Dmitri]

Converting eFootball 2023 faces
The process is almost the same.
In eFootball 2023 we have possibility to export faces to glTF or PSK format.
It's recommended to export to glTF/TGA and with LODs.


If you have textures in DDS, convert them to TGA (you can do this with Compressonator CLI and a special script "Compressonator DDS to TGA.bat" in "Blender scripts" folder - the script converts all file in current folder and in all subfolders).
If you have the model in PSK format, it must be re-exported to FBX (you can do this in batch with "eFootballPskToFbx Batch.py" script for Blender in "Blender scripts" folder).

Some examples on how player folder may look (MI_* files are not important):

 

[Ferdiyansyah Surya]

Make tutorial pes to fifa 16 bro

 

[V.K]

Thank you for continued research.
Please consider following up on the PES to F14 project you tested a while ago with the likes of Beckham, Ronaldinho, Denilson, Nakamura, etc. - I'm still using those faces with great joy.

 

[FinoAllaFineADP]

Please Dmitri F14 or 16, it will be a HUGE game changer.

 

[EfekanP]

@Dmitri this is a game changer methodology. Thanks for your effort. I have already converted more than 100 faces.

I did a minor change in your Blender script. I added a try-except block to bypass if a face is problematic. Because I am trying to convert all the players of a team and if there is an error Blender just stops at that point.

I have found two issues:

1. Icelandic and Romanian characters:
If the name of a player has Icelandic or Romanian character, the BAT file gives an error like this:

I am using my Windows in Turkish, so basic translation: The filename, directory name, or volume label syntax is incorrect.

The player: https://sofifa.com/player/270578
Another example: https://sofifa.com/player/205943

I guess this is happening because one part of your methodology not allowing non-Unicode characters. If you want I can encode all the lines of your CSV file to UTF-8.

2- Skin tone not set.
I will provide more information about this. I could not find my notes. But as far as I remember if I want to convert some Brazilian players' faces (last appearance FIFA 14 or FIFA 16) gives me a skin tone ID is not set error.

As I mentioned I will search and give you an example of it.

Again, thanks for your work and inspiration.

 

[Dmitri]

I guess this is happening because one part of your methodology not allowing non-Unicode characters. If you want I can encode all the lines of your CSV file to UTF-8.

OTools doesn't support unicode. It might be a goal for future OTools versions.

2- Skin tone not set.
I will provide more information about this. I could not find my notes. But as far as I remember if I want to convert some Brazilian players' faces (last appearance FIFA 14 or FIFA 16) gives me a skin tone ID is not set error.

Maybe these players were not present in default database. For such players you will need to crate a "skin.txt" file.

 

[EfekanP]

OTools doesn't support unicode. It might be a goal for future OTools versions.

FYI, Whenever I am faced with this issue, I am editing your CSV file by replacing the problematic characters.

 

[EfekanP]

@Dmitri can you check those two faces?

https://sharemods.com/wt3argdrcl6b/Pes_In.zip.html

Your program does not give any error to me but the fsh files do not exist.

 

[Dmitri]

@Dmitri can you check those two faces?

https://sharemods.com/wt3argdrcl6b/Pes_In.zip.html

Your program does not give any error to me but the fsh files do not exist.

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For me it worked with new tool version. So maybe just wait for it.
Also files for Fofana are too big. Normally your models should not be bigger than 1 MB.
I would recommend to load such PES faces in Blender and check why are they so big.

For Fofana the creator of this face used a new hair model which Konami made for Xavi Simons in recent eFootball 2023 update. It has 70k triangles.

 

[Vndrew]

@Dmitri if it works with pes 2021 faces i guess it will also work with pes 2018/2019/2020 faces since they all have same format, right?
btw does this also work for the UEFA Euro 2008 pc game?

 

[Dmitri]

@Dmitri if it works with pes 2021 faces i guess it will also work with pes 2018/2019/2020 faces since they all have same format, right?
btw does this also work for the UEFA Euro 2008 pc game?

We can't load HD faces in Euro 2008.

 

[Dmitri]

I uploaded a new version and updated the link.

-added eFootball 2023 face conversion
-some improvements for lighting on head and hair
-fixed problem with eyes on some custom PES 2021 faces
-fixed problem with special Turkish characters in folder names

How to convert eFootball faces: https://www.soccergaming.com/index....-fifa-07-fifa-10-format.6471455/#post-6735430

 

[Vndrew]

@Dmitri
needs to be exactly PES 2021 or Efootball 2023 faces?
i tried to convert Cristian Chivu from PES 2020 dlc 4.0 and it didnt work
after the .bat conversion i had only .o files in Pes_out folder no .fsh files
and in game there was no new face

EDIT: i read the problem above, maybe his hair has too many triangles...
EDIT2: also tried with Ronaldinho, same result...basically everyone which has long hair doesnt work? or i did something wrong?
EDIT3: i tried with Casillas, same result
EDIT4: tried Casillas from PES 2021, same result

 

[Dmitri]

needs to be exactly PES 2021 or Efootball 2023 faces?
i tried to convert Cristian Chivu from PES 2020 dlc 4.0 and it didnt work
after the .bat conversion i had only .o files in Pes_out folder no .fsh files
and in game there was no new face

EDIT: i read the problem above, maybe his hair has too many triangles...
EDIT2: also tried with Ronaldinho, same result...basically everyone which has long hair doesnt work? or i did something wrong?
EDIT3: i tried with Casillas, same result
EDIT4: tried Casillas from PES 2021, same result

It can be a problem with fsh writing. Open OTools GUI and try to create fsh file. Check if it works.

 

[Vndrew]

It can be a problem with fsh writing. Open OTools GUI and try to create fsh file. Check if it works.

it creates a .fsh file with the name of the folder, but i think its not good/enough, right?
this happens when i try to convert to original fifa 07 format
@EfekanP said this works for HD body model but not original fifa 07 format

 

[Dmitri]

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it creates a .fsh file with the name of the folder, but i think its not good/enough, right?
this happens when i try to convert to original fifa 07 format
@EfekanP said this works for HD body model but not original fifa 07 format

When you run the .bat file, do you minimize it? Try to keep it until everything is packed.